thanks so much for joining us from baghdad. can you tell us about -- you were born in haiti. can you tell us a little about the sircircumstances there how things got so bad so quickly. why this earthquake, was not that big, why the devastation, talk about what goes on there, the hope, the despair, the structure, the poverty, tell us about your homeland. >> well, sir, my homeland is, what, growing up in haiti, it wasn't that bad. i was -- i had a place to live, sleep, about to go to school, but infrastructure, as far as building, and housing in haiti, they're not the strongest and the earthquake told that, but well, sir, at the end of the day it's difficult because when i heard it and then i was watching fox and then i switched the channel it cnn and i was surprised because i said an earthquake in haiti? >> and officer. >> i could never believe that something like that would happen to haiti. >> yeah. >> officer, i know-- >> hurricanes and such we get those every now and then, but not earthquakes. >> yeah, it's so shocking particularly after everything that haiti has gone throu